Eli Kesef
2022-04-04 22:35:08 UTC
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The pin is mightier than the sword.
Of course there are always naysayers who will say that that is not how the saying goes, but that it is supposed to say: “The PEN is mightier than the sword.”
But that is of course utter nonsense. Just try being a pen pal with for instance a T-rex, and you will soon find out that that is really not how it works.
But the truth of the saying: “The PIN is mightier than the sword, that is something we can observe daily in our noble chess games.
For instance, in this game: https://lichess.org/BoY50Dbfqopn where I three times sacrificed a castle, it all began with me sacrificing a pawn on move 24.
What did I get out of that pawn sacrifice? Material? No. I got only something immaterial out of it, but nevertheless something that was mightier than the sword.
A pin.
Pushing my pawn out of the way opened up the diagonal for my bishop on c5, who thereupon immediately began to pin the enemy f2 pawn on the king. An absolute pin. Pins just don’t get any stronger than that. I mean, if you pin something on the enemy queen, you sometimes just might get a nasty surprise, when the enemy thinks he can sacrifice his queen for some greater good, but sacrificing the king is just not an option.
A pin on the king is a real and unbreakable pin.
And it was because of this mighty pin that I was able to three times sacrifice a castle, and vanquish the enemy king.
I really couldn’t have done it without that pin.
Also in this 11 move miniature Stafford gambit https://lichess.org/71zauXsfdqQa the final death blow was only possible because of a pin.
Truly the pin is mightier than the sword!
https://tinyurl.com/mightierthansword
The pin is mightier than the sword.
Of course there are always naysayers who will say that that is not how the saying goes, but that it is supposed to say: “The PEN is mightier than the sword.”
But that is of course utter nonsense. Just try being a pen pal with for instance a T-rex, and you will soon find out that that is really not how it works.
But the truth of the saying: “The PIN is mightier than the sword, that is something we can observe daily in our noble chess games.
For instance, in this game: https://lichess.org/BoY50Dbfqopn where I three times sacrificed a castle, it all began with me sacrificing a pawn on move 24.
What did I get out of that pawn sacrifice? Material? No. I got only something immaterial out of it, but nevertheless something that was mightier than the sword.
A pin.
Pushing my pawn out of the way opened up the diagonal for my bishop on c5, who thereupon immediately began to pin the enemy f2 pawn on the king. An absolute pin. Pins just don’t get any stronger than that. I mean, if you pin something on the enemy queen, you sometimes just might get a nasty surprise, when the enemy thinks he can sacrifice his queen for some greater good, but sacrificing the king is just not an option.
A pin on the king is a real and unbreakable pin.
And it was because of this mighty pin that I was able to three times sacrifice a castle, and vanquish the enemy king.
I really couldn’t have done it without that pin.
Also in this 11 move miniature Stafford gambit https://lichess.org/71zauXsfdqQa the final death blow was only possible because of a pin.
Truly the pin is mightier than the sword!
https://tinyurl.com/mightierthansword